When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave.
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Kate Forsyth
A book series is never truly over. The story lives on, even when the final page has been turned.
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Richard P. Denney
The brightest light casts the darkest shadow.
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Jess C. Scott
Ignorance isn't a sword. It's a weight that drags a soul swirling to the bottom of the sea.
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Melodie Ramone
More Quotes By Ian Mcewan
When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself...
Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated them, with exactly the same slight emphasis on the second word, as though she were the one to say them first. He had...
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.
This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.
